To honor the Aquarius Full Moon at 2:09 pm EDT Sunday (18:09 UT), you may want to pause for closer reflection. Consider taking a few moments away from it all. Focus on what is urgent for you personally. The more mundane, the better — especially any issue you have distanced yourself from.
Try not to fear the confrontation inherent in every form of reflection. It’s no more than looking in a mirror. It’s only light received from a perspective opposed to its origin.
Try to relax instead. Take air in slowly, deeply and consciously. Feel how deliberate breathing helps you relax. Then, take your most pressing concerns in as you did the air.
The mental construct incorporating air and closer reflection has to do with where the Moon will be on Sunday, both on the tropical zodiac, and in its actual orbit.
The astrological Moon will be in airy Aquarius when it is opposed by the fiery Leo Sun. The Sun and Moon in the same degree of opposing signs defines a Full Moon on the zodiac.
The actual object we call the Moon will also be about as close to Earth as it ever gets because, during Sunday’s Full Moon, Luna will be very close to the part of its orbit called its perihelion (or perigee).
The lunar perigee is a predictable, moving point in the Moon’s elliptical orbit that is closest to Earth. Because its motion is predictable, the Moon’s point of perihelion can be located on the zodiac. That’s how you can say that the Aquarius Full Moon will be conjoined to the degree with its perigee while opposing the Leo Sun.
As result of its relative proximity to Earth, Luna will look bigger on Sunday than during most other Full Moons. Weather permitting, the Moon’s rise and its subsequent setting should be especially impressive because (for reasons not entirely understood) any Full Moon looks more expansive near a horizon. This particular Full Moon will be especially so.
If you are fortunate enough to see Sunday’s expansive Aquarius Full Moon, try to do so with the awareness that it is, in tangible reality, no more and no less than a closer reflection.
Then, employ your airy intellect to expand the reality into metaphor. What the Moon will be doing explicitly on Sunday, you can implicitly do in kind because you are both part of the same system we call solar.
Just as you would appreciate a bigger, brighter orb on the horizon, begin by appreciating what is big and bright about you. You did not get this far by being dim and small. The experience you have taken in during your life is worth something. Upon closer reflection, let your worth fortify you. Then, so fortified, examine anything confronting you right now more closely, and take your time.
Take your time just as a Full Moon takes its time, appearing in the sky all night long because of where Earth is at the time.
During the monthly opposition of Sun and Moon we are (by definition) moving somewhere in between. Hence, while the Sun is lighting one side of the spinning Earth, the Moon is reflecting the Sun’s light to illuminate the other side.
In the same way, let the dark side of your life at the moment of Sunday’s Aquarius Full Moon be illuminated in its entirety by your own reflections from the brighter side of your experience.
Let those reflections bring light where there would otherwise be darkness. Then you can see what darkness has concealed, and (perhaps more importantly) how some of what you may have feared is, upon closer reflection, not real at all. When you eliminate what isn’t real, there is less to take in.
Just as with air, taking in what was held outside changes how you feel. What you need to retain becomes part of you. The rest is released. With every release, you are more relaxed. The more relaxed you are, the more you can take in.
Simply breathing, relaxing and settling down into a closer reflection in order to integrate or release what bugs you right now may not feel like a satisfying prospect for the Aquarius Full Moon. It may seem too simple, too ordinary, boring even.
You may want this so-called “Super Moon” to be superlative, or some sort of epic experience. But, really, haven’t you had enough of too big, too much and too fast for the time being? Wouldn’t it be enough to live only as big as your own life for a while? Think about it. Upon closer reflection, the impending Aquarius Full Moon may best be taken in on a scale closer to your own.
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My goodness. I’ve got my natal ascendant at 20 Leo, Sun at 19 Aquarius and Moon at 16 Scorpio exactly conjunct the IC. Currently spending time 3,149 miles from home (for five weeks) to do a lot of reflection and work on a lot of creative projects, some in collaboration. Your reminder to breathe was so very necessary, as this lunar cycle has felt very much like a catapult to some distant universe. Huh. I suppose it literally has been. In any case – thank you!
Well, you know what I’m looking for from the 2 weeks this Full Moon will be effective Len; some new perspective on the sign Aquarius. A change, or maybe I should say an adjustment. As the old and new rulers of the sign pull away from their (almost exact) quincunx, they have had many, many weeks of jockeying for position as to how the sign they co-rule will express it’s energy going forward. Some things must change and reflect the times we are moving through now, while other things must stay entrenched in the old established patterns in order to maintain stability, a necessary attribute of a fixed sign.
Perhaps we will notice it within ourselves and how we respond within groups of like-minded folks such as we who like to read your healing messages. Maybe we will notice it when we are with personal friends; a new appreciation for them and how they have matured over the years, or conversely, how they have kept their youthful sense of freedom. Or both.
It hasn’t just been Uranus and Saturn, or Aries and Scorpio hashing out how Aquarius must perceive and be perceived in this new coming age which is named for it. Both Mars and Pluto – through aspects they have made and the signs they rule – have had a hand in it. Mars has aspected Uranus and the other planets in the cardinal cross in the harshest, cut-to-the-quick method of change, while ruling both the signs that Uranus and Saturn are transiting. Pluto’s most devastating energies were (and will be for a while longer) hashed out with Uranus, making us all wince in one way or another. Pluto has been in mutual reception with Saturn, so much so it is hard to tell them apart sometimes!
Jupiter in Cancer too has influenced both Saturn and their mutual interest in how societies and cultures adapt, while at the same time, providing an awareness of the power and strength of feeling as Uranus breaks down barrier after barrier. Over the months all the goddesses, Moon, Venus, Ceres, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, Eris and many others have made an imprint on how these two gods, Uranus and Saturn, maneuver through this passageway toward the evolution of Mankind and Earth. Must we still have wars? Are some people more deserving than others, and if so, why? What about the value of progress in the sciences and medicine and technology versus the enrichment and preservation of customs and nature? All these things are being debated among ourselves these days. What price are we willing to pay for what we prize above all else? Mercury will keep these topics front and center in our minds even as Uranus and Saturn part ways.
Our Leo President Obama just had his 53rd birthday and his solar return chart insinuates the cross-road choices he must make this year by his solar return T-square between Venus and the nodes; a choice of values – what must stay and what must be released. This new Moon in Aquarius is conjunct his natal ascendant and my expectation is that he will manifest that energy, his ascendant, in a new way that reflects (as all full moons do) these newly pounded out agreements between the old Aquarius and the new Aquarius, between Saturn and Uranus, between the past of humanity and what beckons us forward.
I won’t elaborate on Chiron’s hand in this transition, nor will I belabor Neptune’s subtle influence in it. Pisces planets don’t expect to be spotlighted anyway, but you can bet your bippy they have facilitated this growth (for that is what it is) in just what it means to be Aquarian, whatever planet is placed there by birth or transit. They will all be under the influence of these changes about to manifest, and what we have all participated in creating. Bring it on Aquarius Full Moon!
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Just lovely Len. Feels so very right. Thank you.
lola0211: Oops! Apologies for not acknowledging your comment earlier. May this Full Moon be all that you want and need it to be. Thank you (and welcome)!
goatwool: It is for me to thank you, and sincerely i do.
AuntieRacquel: i’m depending on you being correct. Thank you for being so supportive.
yoniyoganidra: Thank you. It is gratifying to know that my service is useful for you.
I loved your distillation of reflection: “It’s only light received from a perspective opposed to its origin.” It brought great joy to read such a masterful transmission and, though, it also made me long for the time when the world understands that it’s One, and the same.
Thank you for the reminder to practice “When you eliminate what isn’t real, there is less to take in.” I find simplicity is always a good plan A and plan B, and often find if I remember that there’s no need for a plan C. When I get my ego out of the way, more gets done; effortlessly. And, I improvise with greater inspiration.
I always find my greatest joy at the core, in stillness, within the movement of the moment.
Thanks Len. I have a plan for how to connect with this full moon.
Dear Len – re: your challenges you mentioned – just like the clay becomes a strong pot in the furnace; so our challenges serve to form us and make us stronger … maybe it is BECAUSE of your challenges not in spite of them you & your posts have developed – shaped by the fire of your destiny.
Talking of fire – I’m sure I remember our dear sweet Eric mentioning Vesta a lot recently – those sacrificial fires have been burning …
thank you muchly for the welcome – my comments are sporadic though have been an avid reader of PW for 8 years since (hurray for the day) it was introduced to me.
Len
Your perspective illuminated us with both intuitiveness and wise views and movement.
Thank you for this posting and your recents too.
aword: You are most welcome. To know that my service works for you is the greatest of gratifications.
cfrench: Thank you (and welcome to Planet Waves!) for your kind appraisal and for sharing your grounding strategy.
Lizzy: You are very welcome.
Aqueryass: Yes, you have support from the skies and here at Planet Waves where your cogent comments are always welcome.
AuntieRacquel: Thank you for you generous words (and welcome)! It’s good to know that challenges in my personal life (which would be unprofessional of me to detail here) have not negatively impacted my service to Planet Waves. Your comment today will serve to inspire me towards further improvement and growth, challenges or not.
Excellent article full of information and great step by (giant) step (for mankind) advice which I shall surely follow.
It has been a pleasure to see your style develop Len & you have become noticeably more lucid & therefore potent in recent weeks… or is that just a big bright reflection?!?
As a super aquarian (6 planets plus rising) I feel I will enjoy this super moon.
Thanks Len, as a solar and lunar Aquarian, it good to have permission/reinforcement to just be myself!
There’s so much wonderful advice here, dear Len. Thank you so much!
I like that last paragraph – too big, too much and too fast… I have been overwhelmed by the stuff the world has been dishing out lately.
I have an art project for an upcoming show which keeps me up close and personal; and that gives me great joy. Gardening always grounds me. That is as big as I want to be.
Thank you, Len. Your guidance keeps me sunny-side-up; one-bite-at-a-time.